Donetsk Republic insist on leaving Ukraine
The prime minister of the
self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko,
has vowed that the DPR will not remain a territory of Ukraine under any
circumstance.
The Novorossiya news agency says he dropped the remark in view of the
on-going negotiations in Minsk by the heads of state of the Customs
Union countries, Ukraine and EU representatives. Ukraine’s President
Petro Poroshenko said at the meeting the sovereignty and territorial
integrity of Ukraine must be preserved.
“Federalization does not suit us,” Zakharchenko said.
He said the DPR now saw only one possible option — its total independence from Ukraine, reports Itar-Tass.
Zakharchenko speculated that armistice talks, even if they begin after the Minsk meeting, “will not change anything in principle.”
“Of course, negotiations may get underway and some kind of armistice may be achieved, but it will be fragile and not real. Novorossiya no longer agrees not only to federalization, but to the preservation of Ukraine as such,” Zakharchenko said.
“Federalization does not suit us,” Zakharchenko said.
He said the DPR now saw only one possible option — its total independence from Ukraine, reports Itar-Tass.
Zakharchenko speculated that armistice talks, even if they begin after the Minsk meeting, “will not change anything in principle.”
“Of course, negotiations may get underway and some kind of armistice may be achieved, but it will be fragile and not real. Novorossiya no longer agrees not only to federalization, but to the preservation of Ukraine as such,” Zakharchenko said.
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